PC Mag – by CHLOE ALBANESIUSDon’t you just hate it when all you want to talk about is your latest all-nighter in Ibiza or how Jeeves packed the wrong Rolex for last weekend’s Hamptons excursion, but your Facebook friends are all “Help me, I’m poor!”
Not to worry, Netropolitan is here to save you from having to hob-knob with undesirable 99 percenters. And it will only cost you $9,000 a year.
Netropolitan is a new social network that bills itself as “the online country club for people with more money than time.” It launched today and organizers insist that it’s not a joke.
The $9,000 fee includes a $6,000 initiation fee, plus a $3,000 annual fee. You must be 21 to join. You’ll supposedly be able to chat with like-minded individuals, though Netropolitan declined to provide details about its user base.
“We simply cannot stress enough how important preserving our members’ privacy is to us,” the company said. “Other than announcing that at our launch we already had several hundred members, we will never publicly state the exact number of members in the club. And especially, we will NEVER release or verify the identity of any of our members – ever.
What does $9,000 get you? Basically a Facebook rip-off. In screen shots, user profiles include access to activity, profile, notifications, messages, location, friends, and followers. An update box lets you tell fellow members “where you are and what you’re up to.”
Users will also get unlimited cloud file storage, which is “similar to paid services like Dropbox or SkyDrive [now OneDrive] (and might very well replace those services for you),” the company said, without elaborating.
Your money will also provide an ad-free environment. Members can post ads in a classified section, but the site promised to “never” display third-party advertising or promote certain products.
The perks end there, though. “Please understand that Netropolitan is NOT a concierge service,” the company said. “Our Member Service Associates will not book you a charter jet, or find you tickets to a sold-out Broadway show. They exist solely to help members technically navigate and find their way around the social club.”
The site is the brainchild of composer James Touchi-Peters, who wanted “an environment where you could talk about the finer things in life without backlash.” (Uh-huh.)
If you’re ready to graduate from Rich Kids of Instagram to Netropolitan, you cansign up online.
Sadly, this is not the first social network for rich people. Social1000 tried that back in 2008, and let’s not forget the “I Am Rich” app.
Kind of like “sams club”. lol
That must cover the cost of NSA to spy on them or to bribe them to look the other way, depending on how you look at it. What a waste of money.